-Note that one of the buccaneers proms matches the vigilante video sync
prom [caius, David Haywood]

-Moon Light: Rearranged and split by program. This generated new sets
due to the hidden extra programs in the program ROMs. [Roberto Fresca]

-Xerox NoteTaker: Added the IO Processor firmware v1.50 as an alt bios
after typing it from the assembly source listing on bitsavers. Added
two PROMs as NO_DUMP. Updated comments and history a bit, but needs
further improvement. [Lord Nightmare]

-slapstic: One small step toward slapstic modernization [AJR]
* Make chip number part of device configuration, not init param
* Correct mainpcb slapstic number in racedrivpan
* Remove many unused slapstics

R. Belmont wrote: A quick SDL-specific note: SDL 1.2 is no longer supported as of this version. If your platform isn't on SDL2, you need to either add support to SDL2 or write your own OS-dependant layer. (The latter task should be simplified soon; we plan to replace platform-specific code with C++11 functionality for things like time where possible).

Also, if you're on a system where -mt provided better video performance, try the new -video bgfx renderer; not only is it The Future which will soon provide all of the HLSL features on Linux and Mac, but it's properly threaded so it gets multithreading's performance benefits without destabilizing your X server or Cocoa desktop smile

And finally, MAME is now multi-lingual. It's still very much a work in progress, but if you're not a native English speaker MAME now (hopefully) speaks your language. And if it doesn't, we'll gladly accept .po files so it can smile

Oh, and we buried the lede a little: if you run with -cheat, there are now auto-fire options to save your thumbs...